Example sentences of "them at the " in BNC.

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1 Once at Finsbury Park , the cameras caught them at the sound check , in interviews , backstage , and relaxing before the gig .
2 Always close the doors at one end before opening them at the other , unless the wind is very light , and never leave both ends open in case a wind springs up later in the day .
3 I realized I would need to convince them at the first opportunity that I was primarily a practical policeman and not an academic ; and I also noted that while the college was keen to list the academic qualifications of those on the course , the participants quickly justified Lewis 's assertions by playing them down to emphasize their history of praxis and practical mastery .
4 To do nothing might be worse — Allan had greeted them at the house with the news ( fresh from the great oven of rumour , the widow Duff 's at Ballinluig ) that a file of English soldiers had ridden out from Perth .
5 A thinner strip runs between them at the back .
6 These gestures can be seen in many Persian miniatures , some of them at the British Museum .
7 The emigrants ' discomfort was aggravated by tantalising radio reports of the steaming soup tureens , hot water and clean clothes waiting for them at the reception centre in Hof , West Germany .
8 She thinks the microwave ‘ has changed our perceptions of time , much as telephones changed them at the turn of the century ’ .
9 It will enable the telephone to take messages , storing them at the exchange for ‘ reading back ’ when required .
10 For a new act , I would have to pitch them at the right venue for their type of music .
11 Thus in northern Nigeria there has been a long-established practice of Hausa farmers purchasing immature beef cattle at the end of the harvesting season , and feeding them on maize stalks and other crop residues during the dry season , before marketing them at the end of six months .
12 He dressed and had breakfast with them at the table .
13 He met them at the gate and was smiling .
14 NO SNOW fell during the night and at 10.00 , after Erika had run her five kilometres under a dazzling blue sky , Karl ran and said that he thought he rather did that a brief tour of Berlin would be possible and that he would be waiting in the lounge of the Palast at 11.00 ; adding that Paul should meet them at the television Tower at 1.00
15 ‘ Although I love traditional British desserts such as jam sponge , I can never manage to eat them at the end of a three-course meal , ’ Clayton says .
16 Alternately , the Commissioner and his most senior colleagues invite them to Scotland Yard , or visit them at the ALA building nearby .
17 at the time , I thought , ‘ This is ridiculous , I 'm holding these boys back ’ because I was also managing a singer called Marc Bolan , and in the quieter moments , he and David would decorate my office to fill in the time , but I said to them that I had just run out of money and could n't afford to carry on — I 'd taken no commission from either of them at the time — so I went off to Spain to think about my next move and released them both from their contracts . ’
18 I remember David started crying but Ralph would not back down and say we deserved the money , or to have some of it , so we just left them at the Brummel Club before doing their thing .
19 He considered him as he caused coffee to be produced and established them at the big table at the other end of his room .
20 IR was born in America in the 1940s to service the nation 's host of small private investors ( 47m of them at the latest count ) .
21 For one thing , he says , ‘ we can pick them at the peak of flavour maturity .
22 They were part of Japan until Russia occupied them at the end of the second world war , and the Japanese feel they are justified in wanting them back .
23 He was still writing verses but , according to Hooton 's notes , he abandoned them at the end of this year under the influence of Pater .
24 In short , the consumer called the tune and the operators who prospered were those who best identified the needs of the consumers and met them at the right price .
25 I 've seen them at the shop , paying their bills .
26 He will learn of them at the end , when it is all over , and even then only indirectly .
27 The little pulls of wind playing with the leaves were getting stronger now , shaking the petals from the wild roses and throwing them at the diners as if they were confetti .
28 He met them at the gates of the airfield ( still a debris of contractors ' equipment surrounded by barbed wire ) and informed them gravely that if they entered — no difficult matter — they would be breaking the law .
29 Many are offered in garden centres and shops , loose or prepacked , from February onwards , but care must be taken to plant them at the right time or thy may fail .
30 Part of the success is to sow them at the right time .
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